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Modern Art History Vocabulary
Modern Art Vocab
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
03/16/2017

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Academic art
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The academy and the salon
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Aestheticism
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The Enlightenment
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The hierarchy of genres: from history painting to still-life
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Modern/modernity/modernism
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Neoclassicism
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Romanticism
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Subjectivity
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Tools of classicism
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The contour, linear perspective, chiaroscuro, modelling
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The contour
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Linear perspective
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Chiaroscuro
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Modelling
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The avant-garde
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Baudelaire’s theory of the eternal and the contingent in Monet
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The bourgeoisie and the proletariat
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Materialism (Marx)
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Realism as a mode of modern art
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Realism and the present tense
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Realism’s “corruption” of the classical, neoclassical, and history painting
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Cézanne’s “solidification” of Impressionism
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Color theory: complementary colors and cool/warm colors
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Degas’s influences: ukiyo-e prints and chronophotography
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Facture: contour, stroke, rub, dot, passage
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Haussmannization and Paris in the 1870s
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The Impressionist exhibition and the Société Anonyme
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Impressionism and subjectivism
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Impressionist rejection of chiaroscuro
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Neo-Impressionism
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Post-Impressionism
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Painterly Impressionism
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Photographic Impressionism
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Painting in plein air
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Seurat’s “Art is Harmony” in A Sunday Afternoon
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Analytical Cubism and the training of vision
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Kahnweiler’s lessons
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compressed composition
projective grid
the pierced closed form
the recognizable detail
subjectivism over naturalism
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History of cinema in 30 seconds
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Humor and everyday life in Synthetic Cubism
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Material support vs. illusionistic image
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Mimetic art and mimesis
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The materials of papier collé
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Primitivism and the politics of Demoiselles
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Synthetic Cubism and new ways of making art
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Synthetic Cubism and the relativity of meaning
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Affect
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Die Brücke’s influences
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Fauvism and the 1905 exhibition at the Salon d’Automne
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German Expressionism vs. Fauvism
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Local and non-local color
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Mary Wigman and expressionist dance
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Matisse’s method: balancing strokes
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Matisse on color and expression
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Kirchner, Berlin, and prostitution
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Saturated and unsaturated color
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Wilhelmine Germany
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